Hires and promotions at Lehigh Valley businesses

has been selected senior vice president and chief operating officer at the Penn Foundation in Sellersville.

Gilson has worked at the Penn Foundation for 25 years and was executive director of quality and operations, the quality improvement director, director of provider relations and director of the partial hospital program.

JULIE WILLIAMS

has joined Penn Foundation in Sellersville as clinical director of substance-abuse services.

Williams was most recently associate executive director of mental health services and also worked as director of assertive community treatment services and as team leader during her time with Penn Foundation.

DR. RICHARD NEFF

has been named associate executive director of mental health services at the Penn Foundation in Sellersville.

Dr. Neff was a lead clinician of the assertive community treatment team at the foundation from 2011-13 and then pursued his doctorate in clinical psychology at Immaculata University.

He completed his doctoral internship at Belmont Behavioral Health in Philadelphia and has returned to the foundation.

DAWN C. ANDERSON,

a certified public accountant from Whitehall Township, was recently selected to serve a three-year term on the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Council.

Anderson is a manager with Campbell Rappold & Yurasits LLP in Allentown and is an active member of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She was also a past president of PICPA's Lehigh Valley Chapter.